User:Cullen328/Sandbox/Drought


 * Keep On September 8, the Voice of America wrote "As wildfires burn across the drought-stricken state of Texas, farmers and ranchers there and across the southwestern United States are facing devastating livestock and crop losses. Analysts say the effect could ripple across the U.S. and world economies. And there is no assurance that the dry spell will end any time soon." US Drought Monitor reports extreme to exceptional drought conditions in almost all of Texas as well as Oklahoma, New Mexico and Georgia. Bloomberg News describes the impact on the cotton industry as an "unmitigated disaster" in a story called "Record Texas Drought Burns Cotton Farmers as White Gold Withers in Sun".  MSNBC ran a story called "Crews battle wildfires amid severe Texas drought: 'It was unbelievable, just horrific. There were horses on fire, buildings on fire'".  That was months ago, and things have gotten much worse lately.